WORLDS COLLIDE - THE SACRIFICE
Something was returning—fast, angry, uncomposed.
Ghast arrived first, not in his cloud-skin but on four thunder-boned limbs: lion-shouldered, dragon-ribbed, seven tails flensing the air in agitated braids. Stormlight ran his seams; ozone gathered in his wake. He knelt and pressed a proud head to wet stone. The lake crept toward him and stopped, as if to gossip.
Echidna’s smile was a curved blade. “You are early, my breath.”
Ghast lifted his head. Four pale lights in the planes where eyes should have been flickered, then steadied. “Not early,” he said, voice a weather change. “Hungry. I tasted a name at the water’s edge, and it bit me back.”
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